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91_HB0532

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution  of
 2    Marriage Act by changing Section 505.1.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Marriage  and  Dissolution  of
 6    Marriage Act is amended by changing Section 505.1 as follows:

 7        (750 ILCS 5/505.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 505.1)
 8        Sec.  505.1.   (a)  If  Whenever  it  is  determined in a
 9    proceeding  to  establish  or  enforce  a  child  support  or
10    maintenance obligation  that  the  person  owing  a  duty  of
11    support is unemployed, the court may order the person to seek
12    employment and report periodically to the court with a diary,
13    listing  or  other  memorandum  of  his  or  her  efforts  in
14    accordance with such order. Additionally, the court may order
15    the   unemployed  person  to  report  to  the  Department  of
16    Employment Security  for  job  search  services  or  to  make
17    application  with the local Job Jobs Training Partnership Act
18    provider for participation in job search,  training  or  work
19    programs  and  where  the  duty of support is owed to a child
20    receiving support services under Article X  of  the  Illinois
21    Public  Aid  Code,  as  amended,  the  court  may  order  the
22    unemployed  person  to  report  to the Illinois Department of
23    Public Aid for participation in job search, training or  work
24    programs  established  under  Section  9-6 and Article IXA of
25    that Code.
26        (b)  Whenever  it  is  determined  that  a  person   owes
27    past-due  support  for  a child or for a child and the parent
28    with whom the child is living, and  the  child  is  receiving
29    assistance  under  the  Illinois  Public  Aid Code, the court
30    shall order at the request  of  the  Illinois  Department  of
31    Public Aid:
 
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 1             (1)  that  the  person  pay  the past-due support in
 2        accordance with a plan approved by the court; or
 3             (2)  if  the  person  owing  past-due   support   is
 4        unemployed,  is  subject  to  such  a  plan,  and  is not
 5        incapacitated, that the person participate  in  such  job
 6        search,  training,  or  work  programs  established under
 7        Section 9-6 and Article IXA of the  Illinois  Public  Aid
 8        Code as the court deems appropriate.
 9    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; revised 10-31-98.)

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